John Trapp on Nehemiah 8:17

Verſe 17. Made boothes, and ſate under the boothes] See Verſe 14, 15, 16. They that turn this hiſtory into myſtery, make an alluſion of it, 1. To Chriſt as dwelling in our fleſh 2. To Chriſtians as travelling toward heaven, and having here no ſetled habitation. Heb. 11.13.

For ſince the dayes of Jeſhua] Moſes is not mentioned; becauſe during his dayes, till Joſhua brought them into the promiſed land, they kept not this feaſt, likely.

Had not the children of Iſrael done ſo] Kept this feaſt they had, but not ſo kept it: viz. with that devotion, ſolemnity, and great gladneſſe, being in ſo poor a caſe, and yet ſo unanimous in the work, as one man. But one would wonder that all along during the reign of David and Solomon (who gave the pattern of, and built the Temple) and all thoſe ſucceeding Reformers, there ſhould ſomthing be omitted about the feaſt of Tabernacles (kept as 'tis thought by Solomon, 2 Chron. 7.8.) till their return from Babylon; yet ſo it was.